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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Mondello testing
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 18:14:04 -0500
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Great images, Douglas.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 4/14/2019 5:29 PM, Douglas Barry wrote:
> I have been ridiculously busy for the last while so haven't been 
> checking the LUG let alone photographing any thing. However, on 
> Friday, my equally old friend Brendan persuaded me to go down to 
> Mondello Park to help him test and bed in his "new" car - a 1970 
> Mallock M8b/16 with a measly 1.6 litre engine - which he was racing 
> today. Brendan is team principal, chief mechanic, and number one 
> driver for Bus Pass Racing. Once you're over 66 here in Ireland 
> (thanks to goddamm socialism :-) Bless it) you can get free travel on 
> public transport, so the team name is his way of cocking a snoot at 
> the young hard chargers who don't relish getting passed by anyone 
> older than them.
>
> I brought the Sony and took some photos when I was down there with 
> him. Anyway, he finished 2nd in the historic sports car category today 
> in his first race only beaten by a very fast 4.6 litre MGB.
>
> Here are some images from Friday: all can be seen large.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Sport/Motorsport/2019/Mondello/
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> Douglas
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